The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 124

The king handed over to him a sealed packet, desiring him to give it himself only into the hands of the governor, and to no one else.

What happens: hand over, seal, desire, give · To what, where: king, packet, hands

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 packet	nsubj
3	handed	hand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 packet	advcl
4	over	over	ADP	_	3 handed	compound:prt
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 handed	obl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 packet	det
8	sealed	seal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 packet	amod
9	packet	packet	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 desiring	punct
11	desiring	desire	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 packet	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 desiring	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 give	mark
14	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 desiring	xcomp
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 give	obj
16	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 give	iobj
17	only	only	ADV	_	20 hands	advmod
18	into	into	ADP	_	20 hands	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 hands	det
20	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 give	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 governor	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 governor	det
23	governor	governor	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hands	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 one	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 one	cc
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 one	case
27	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	28 one	det
28	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 packet	appos
29	else	else	ADV	_	28 one	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 packet	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	hand over	participle		king		vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to he=Destination
2	seal	participle				vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	desire	gerund	king			tree rules
4	give not said to happen	to-infinitive	packet	king	the hands of the governor	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient it=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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